dec 12, 1927 - 15th Party Congress and the Great Turn

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Stalin brought in the 'Great Turn'.
- Announced the First Five Year Plan and ended the NEP.
- Set high targets for industrialisation.
- International relations were poor in 1927; needed industry to build armaments.
- Land to be collectivised
- Stalin/the party assumed control of industry to a point Lenin had never imagined.
- Supposed to create the idyllic socialist society, from which the 'New Soviet Man' would emerge.

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